Rooting a Droid X with DoRootForWindows

First off, I must admit that I had no real reason to root my Droid X… other than to peak my curiosity and see what all the fuss was about. I decided to install Liberty 1.5 as, from my research, I thought it was the most complete ROM with an extremely active developer community.

Being new to rooting an Android, I did a ton of research to make sure I had a good idea of potential issues and how to solve them. While doing this, I ran into a lot of supposed “quick root” applications such as Droid2Root and RootMyX2 but both of them ran into issues and told me that it wasn’t successful after attempting to root my phone. So, I went the slightly more “manual” root by using a simple application called DoRootForWindows. (more…)